About this Event

Like many businesses at the moment, the questions of "Adding more Value", is one which many will be wrestling with to understand how best to achieve this.

Did you know that many of us end up spending parts of our working day doing unprofitable and unrewarding tasks when we'd really like to be getting on with taking our businesses forward and giving both our customers a more valuable experience as well as what we do within the business.

Using Lean as an improvement approach, isn't just for manufacturing companies, and you’d be surprised by the number of different ways you can apply these tools and techniques from product based to service based companies, and if you wanted to, even in your own home!

What is it?

Weekly bitesize and interactive lunchtime workshops developed to help you identify the Tools and Techniques which will aid you in ditching those unprofitable activities, obsolete processes, products and service to allow you to better put your energy and efforts into making your business more effective, organised and ultimately more profitable.

Whether you are starting up or ambitiously growing your business and regardless of what sector or line of business you’re in, you’ll benefit from learning and deploying these tools and techniques to help you focus in on the specific activities that add real value, to help you, to move your business forward in 2021.

Topics

• Culture
• Lean Principles
• Value and Waste
• 8 Wastes
• 5S
• Visual Management Process Mapping
• Value Stream Mapping
• Set-Up Reduction and OEE
• as well as touching on some of the other lesser known ones.

Eligibility criteria applies

Open to new or existing small to medium sized companies on the Supply Chain North East programme in the NE LEP area (see below)

Supply Chain North East Eligibility

Businesses in the NELEP area

• Northumberland
• Newcastle
• North Tyneside
• South Tyneside
• Gateshead
• Sunderland
• County Durham

Supply Chain North East brings together four key partners to work with over 800 businesses through to 2021, supporting them to identify opportunities in new and existing markets. An integral part of the North East Strategic Economic Plan, that has a vision to create 100,000 more and better jobs between 2014 and 2024. Supply Chain North East is delivered across the region by RTC North, Generator, North East Automotive Alliance (NEAA) and North East Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC).

Supply Chain North East is a multimillion programme aimed at revolutionising the way SMEs diversify their offering and embrace new markets. The programme has received more than £3m of funding from the England European Regional Development Fund, which is part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020.